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17th Dubai Open Chess Tournament – Results

The 17th edition of the Dubai Open Chess Tournament (also known as Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup) with 155 participants, 39 of which were grandmasters, took place from April 5 through 16 in Dubai. The participants travelled to the Emirates from 39 countries to join the race for the prize money fund of 50.000 USD (12.000 USD for the victor, the rest distributed between the first 18 ranks). One third of the players, 31 to be exact, came from India and another 25 from the United Arab Emirates.

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Source: http://www.dubaichess.ae

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Surprisingly, the Englishman David W. L. Howell, who held the highest ELO-rating of 2687 points amongst all participants, came off second and his strongest opponent Vladimir Fedossev from Russia (ELO 2674) came off third, while favorites such as Yuriy Kuzubov (ELO 2658) and Abhijeet Gupta (ELO 2629) had to comply with ranks 25 and 71. Azerbaijani Zaur Mammadov, on the other hand, made it to the Top 10 with an ELO-rating of “only” 2470 points.

Greatest winner of the tournament was Turkish grandmaster Dragan Solak who was born in Serbia. The 35 year-old prevailed over Axel Berglind, Salah Yousry, Tigran Harutyunian, Yuriy Kuzubov, and Yuri Solodovnichenko and tied against Vladimir Fedoseev, Igor Kovalenko, David Howell, and Eltaj Safarli through which he scored 7 out of 9 points like the players on following five ranks. He dominated the tie break round and grabbed the 12.000 USD prize money from right under David Howell’s nose.

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Final Results

Rank

Name

ELO

NAT

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

7th

8th

9th

Pts.

Rtg.1

Rtg.2

Rtg.3

1

GM

Solak Dragan

2602

TUR

68s1

60w1

29s1

3w½

14w½

25s1

2w½

15s1

6w½

7

20684

0

55,5

2

GM

Howell David W L

2687

ENG

75s1

17w1

26s1

24w1

8s½

7w½

1s½

13w1

3s½

7

20583

0

55,5

3

GM

Fedoseev Vladimir

2674

RUS

79w1

58s1

44w1

1s½

15w1

4s½

53w1

7s½

2w½

7

20556

0

53,5

4

GM

Istratescu Andrei

2630

FRA

65s1

61w1

9s1

31w½

21s1

3w½

7s0

23w1

20w1

7

20426

0

53

5

GM

Ivanisevic Ivan

2638

SRB

123w1

37s½

32w½

43s1

35w½

39s1

23w½

53s1

7w1

7

19971

0

48,5

6

GM

Safarli Eltaj

2637

AZE

88s0

90w1

89s1

61w1

17s½

40w1

21s1

8w1

1s½

7

19511

0

48

7

GM

Shabalov Alexander

2500

USA

145w1

87s½

69w1

71w1

16s1

2s½

4w1

3w½

5s0

6,5

20547

0

50,5

8

GM

Grandelius Nils

2613

SWE

96s1

105w1

76s1

110w1

2w½

14s½

15w½

6s0

39w1

6,5

20447

0

49,5

9

IM

Mammadov Zaur

2470

AZE

90w1

111s1

4w0

84s½

72w1

24w1

22s1

25s½

12w½

6,5

19750

0

47

10

GM

Fier Alexandr

2624

BRA

78w1

74s½

52w1

14s0

69w1

70s½

32w½

37s1

31w1

6,5

19699

0

45

11

GM

Shimanov Aleksandr

2601

RUS

82w1

51s-

97s1

73s½

74w1

33w½

60s1

18w1

14s½

6,5

19300

0

45,5

12

GM

Rakhmanov Aleksandr

2623

RUS

114s1

48w0

65s1

49w½

41s1

36w1

54s½

17w1

9s½

6,5

19064

0

47

13

GM

Guseinov Gadir

2606

AZE

56w1

73s1

42w1

15s0

34w1

23s½

14w1

2s0

25w½

6

20498

0

51,5

14

GM

Kovalenko Igor

2665

LAT

38s1

50w½

33s1

10w1

1s½

8w½

13s0

36w1

11w½

6

20385

0

54,5

15

GM

Solodovnichenko Yuri

2584

UKR

117s1

77w1

51s1

13w1

3s0

20w1

8s½

1w0

16s½

6

20363

0

51

16

GM

Zhigalko Sergei

2657

BLR

92w1

54s1

39w1

21s½

7w0

35s½

42w1

31s½

15w½

6

20217

0

49

17

IM

Das Sayantan

2439

IND

107w1

2s0

56w1

66s1

6w½

27s½

35w1

12s0

53w1

6

20062

0

51

18

GM

Petrosian Tigran L.

2660

ARM

66w1

33s½

37w1

20s0

52s1

110w1

31w½

11s0

32w1

6

20035

0

50

19

GM

Bartel Mateusz

2642

POL

64s1

133w1

40s½

23w½

29s1

53w0

70s½

76w1

24s½

6

20028

0

46,5

20

GM

Ipatov Alexander

2614

TUR

93w1

69s½

55w1

18w1

31s½

15s0

43w1

54w1

4s0

6

19971

0

48

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Five participants were awarded with FIDE titles after the tournament: IM Zaur Mammadov fulfilled the last GM norm and was thus announced grandmaster. Vignesh Nr, Abishek Kelkar, and Deshpande Aniruddha from India accomplished the IM norms. Lastly, Wang Shanshan secured the title “Woman International Master” (WIM).